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Tweet the world’s biggest arms exporters to support the Arms Trade Treaty

Tweet the world’s biggest arms exporters to support the Arms Trade Treaty

June 11 2012, 11:19 AM by Rosie Cowling

This week (11-16 June) is the global week of action to crank up the noise on ATT. Amnesty International has therefore initiated a tweet-a-thon that we would love for you to get involved in. The idea is to put some twitter-pressure on the world’s biggest weapons-supplying countries ahead of the UN negotiations in New York on July 2.

Help us flood the Twitter accounts of the “Big Six” arms exporters during our Global Tweet-a-thon from today until Saturday targeting USA, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China. Join thousands of ATT supporters and activists around the world and send a unified message to the world’s most powerful governments. Use the hashtag #ArmsTreaty and let us know if you get a response! Below are some suggested tweets and handles.

NB: Amnesty Australia will be targeting USA, Russia and Australia a day later than the timings below. If you’re in Australia or Asia-Pacific, find important information on timings and messages at the end of this blog post.*

The Control Arms campaign is a global civil society alliance that has advocated for a bulletproof Arms Trade Treaty for over a decade. Made up of over 100 charity, nonprofit, and nongovernmental groups throughout the world, Control Arms continues to strive for a world where deadly weapons are kept out of the wrong hands through a regulated arms trade.